Ride The Rockies

Colorado hosts a "Ride the Rockies" bike race each year and my friend Carrie (who I met in 1989 at church and now lives in Albert Lea, MN) has a daughter Tasha who was going to be riding (Tasha is from Portland.)

So Carrie and another friend did some Colorado sightseeing and I drove to Breckenridge on Thursday, the day before the race would end, to wait at the finish line and then bring both of them back to our house!

I hadn't seen Carrie in 6 years so we had a lot of catching up to do!  We headed to a nice restaurant just across the street from where we were staying and this place had the coolest lights!

We did some driving around on Friday - Breckenridge is so beautiful!

Stopped for coffee at a cute place and enjoyed drinking it on a park bench as we dodged all the white fluff in the air from the trees!  Yes, my allergies were going full speed!

We arrived at the finish line of the race about 2 hours before Tasha came in - so cheered and clapped the ones before her and enjoyed seeing Tasha cross the finish line!

 After dinner at a local pub, we headed back to our house!  Saturday we headed out to Florissant for coffee after one of Glenn's famous breakfasts' and then into town to give them a tour of the changes since they used to live here!

Tasha and Glenn had fun playing pool!

Plans were to go to the balloon fest out on Hartsel flats on Sunday morning so Tasha could take a ride in a hot air balloon but her flight left too early so we headed to the Springs to drop them off! But not before one last picture of long time friends!